Thursday, November 6, 2014

Sweet Potato Chili

 So many things on my plate lately.  Decided was going to make gifts for all family members so as to save the money to buy my kids their presents they want.  I crochet alot lately and have alot of yarn from other projects in the past that I have vowed to myself to use every drop making these gifts.  My kids want a few things made too so I am working on getting their gifts done and scouring pinterest for cool new ideas for things to make all other family members.  I will be driving to MI over the holidays so making the gifts also helps me to save for the gas to do this.
 So I was given a big bag of sweet potatoes and went onto pinterest to find a recipe using them to make for dinner and found a recipe for Sweet Potato Lentil Chili.  I changed the recipe to fit what I had in the house so didn't have to go to the store.  I had leftover black beans from black bean burgers made the day before so I threw them in.  I had 4 tomatoes on the cupboard so chopped and threw them in.  I had 3/4 of a jar of marinara in the fridge so dumped it in also.  As the sweet potatoes cooked I smashed some of them so I could thicken the chili up some.  Threw in burger (fried), chopped onion, chili powder, water, chicken bouillon, cumin, seasoned salt, pepper, garlic powder, frozen corn, lots of sweet potatoes peeled and cubed, sugar, and butter to make it rich in flavor. Turned out very good.
 I had a can of pumpkin so I went on pinterest and found a recipe for pumpkin bars so I decided to make them for the tribe.  I like usual did some substitutions (always do). One thing I did that I liked was sprinkle pumpkin pie spice over the frosting.
 Things I would like to accomplish this week are:  Christmas cards wrote out,  List of everyone's names with what I have for them or what I am going to make them wrote down,  Write down a budget for Christmas presents for the kids and expenses for our trip over the holiday's.  Now lets see what I actually get done.  Lol.

Off to work on the list.

Make Do!





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